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Building a Circular Economy for Stretch Film

(News | New Products)

April 05, 2024, ... companies to downgauge their stretch film by using high performing films at thinner gauges. This reduces the amount of plastic used which ultimately gets sent to landfills. To help determine the right ...

A New Era in Sustainable Packaging

(News | New Products)

March 26, 2024, ... wrap packaging material is usually made from polymer plastic film. When heated, it shrinks tightly over the item it is covering. Shrink wrap and shrink film are very versatile materials and can be used ...

Pressure on Paper Packaging Converters

(Flexpack)

March 24, 2024, ... help manufacturers meet their sustainability goals by reducing plastic and raw materials, using bio-based content and light-weighting, without yielding on durability and production productivity. Let’s ...

FPA: The State of the U.S. Flexible Packaging Industry

(Print)

March 10, 2024, ... category related to flexible packaging is the area of “Plastics Packaging Film and Sheet (including Laminated) Manufacturing,” which made up about $16.1 billion in 2022. This was followed closely by “Plastics ...

ISRA VISION Honored for Outstanding Supplier Performance in Battery Component Manufacturing

(News | New Products)

February 18, 2024, ... with immediate feedback on the production process and material quality. At Zijiang, the system is used to inspect aluminum-coated plastic films. These are needed, among other things, in the production ...

Seamless Quality Monitoring from Raw Material to Finished Roll

(Web Handling)

February 12, 2024, ... technologies. The company’s advanced inline optical inspection solutions have been used for over 35 years in a vast range of industries, including battery, plastic film, printing, and packaging where they ...

A leader in bag converting equipment

(Bag Pouch)

February 12, 2024, ... of plastic bag-making equipment, pouch-making equipment, and recloseable solutions for the bag-converting industry worldwide. With more than 100 years of experience, Hudson-Sharp sets the standard for ...

IPCO Double Belt Presses and Precision Scattering Systems highlighted at JEC

(News | New Products)

January 31, 2024, ...  Their main applications in composite processing are in high-pressure ThermoPress SB systems used in the production of thermoset/thermoplastic composite materials, and hybrid ThermoPress CB CombiBelt ...

Rafitec-Propex and FCO Group Present Innovations at the IPPE International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) 2024

(News | New Products)

January 29, 2024, The Brazilian companies Rafitec-Propex — a provider of curtains for poultry farming The Brazilian companies Rafitec-Propex — a provider of curtains for poultry farming —, GDM Plastics, Plaszom Packaging, ...

Rang Dong Switches to Vetaphone for Latest Corona Technology

(News | New Products)

January 15, 2024, ... An Province, Vietnam.  The company is part of the Rang Dong Plastics Group that was established in 1960, and its vast production site covers 8.3 hectares and employs many hundreds of people. Explaining ...

Takes on Tapes, Labels & Liners

(Converting Perspectives)

January 14, 2024, ... that can help to replace single-use plastics with one of the most renewable substrates on the planet.” Brand appeal often steals headlines in the labeling arena. Optimal printed surfaces include matte ...

Holographic tear tape Supastrip® Prism Unlocks New Possibilities for Enhanced Packaging Opening Experience

(News | New Products)

January 07, 2024, ... that cannot easily be replicated. Supastrip® Prism, like its Supastrip® and Supastrip® PCR counterparts, can be applied to a range of products that use plastic or paper as the primary packaging across ...

Pouches 101

(Bag Pouch)

December 03, 2023, ... Essentially, allowing for more product per delivery due to a pouches’ space-saving design feature(s). With many pouch design variations made from materials like aluminum or multiple plastic layers such ...

Treating Your Business (and Your Customers) with Corona Treatment

(Surface Prep)

November 29, 2023, ... benefit from corona treatment to ensure premium printed quality and optimized line speeds. Increasing the surface energy of plastic films, papers and foils means that they can be printed on or coated with ...

Materials Lead The Way

(Web Handling)

November 26, 2023, ... that contain bamboo. I still question the distance to transport this material to U.S. converters and processing needed to treat the material for use. Then there are plastics. Different plastic ...

Takes on Tapes, Labels & Liners

(News | New Products)

October 08, 2023, ... help to replace single-use plastics with one of the most renewable substrates on the planet.” Brand appeal often steals headlines in the labeling arena. Optimal printed surfaces include matte and various ...

Ashland Introduces the Easy-Wet™ Substrate Wetting Agent Portfolio

(News | New Products)

October 03, 2023, ... high-value performance in various industrial coatings applications, including wood, metal, automotive, general industrial finishes, printing inks, and plastic coatings.  Substrate-wetting agents are ...

Sabic and Partners Introduce First In-Mold Labeling Solution With Certified Polymers for Food Packaging Containers

(News | New Products)

September 28, 2023, ... valuable used plastic from ending up as waste.” The label material for the IML containers is a biaxially oriented polyethylene (BOPP) film produced by Taghleef, a leading global supplier of films ...

Italian Printer Is Europe’s First Flexible Film Converter to Offer All-UV LED Curing in Narrow to Mid-Web Format

(Flexpack)

September 06, 2023, ... venture to life. In 2005, the partners founded ACM Plastics and began by offering laminating and reel-cutting services. It was, as they say, off to the races. They soon transitioned to printing, and ...

INX prepares for PRINTING United with Complete Inkjet solutions and sustainable Packaging inks

(News | New Products)

September 06, 2023, ... bio-renewable ink for flexographic, offset, and gravure use that reduces the carbon footprint of packaging materials and contributes to a circular economy. Genesis makes it easier to recycle plastic films ...